Definition of morphological in English:
morphological
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adjective
(also morphologic)
1Relating to the form or structure of things.
‘the purely morphological fact that with a little dam one could hold back a lot of water’- ‘The elegant installation, which juxtaposed sculptures and drawings, demonstrated the morphological development of Bontecou's ideas.’
- ‘It is more typical, however, to encounter a sample of artifacts exhibiting morphological characteristics along a continuum that are not easily sorted by discrete variables.’
- ‘Petridis covers in some detail Olbrechts's morphological approach to the study of art, as developed in his Congo art book.’
- ‘The sculptural solidity of the forms, the sharply creased drapery folds, and morphological details of hair, eyes and extremities are all characteristic of the youthful Bronzino.’
- ‘Picasso's pots, pitchers, and platters are exuberantly modern, not only in their late Surrealist morphological fluidity, but also in their rapport with the Duchampian readymade.’
- ‘Here, he reintroduces wacky, quasi-surrealist characters, like those in his first New York exhibitions, to activate the colorful geometry in a tumbling, morphological mix.’
- ‘12th- and 13th-century churches in the diocese of Paris imitate many of the formal and morphological features of Notre-Dame.’
- ‘Based on obvious morphological differences and wear analyses conducted in the Midwest, blade tools were clearly used for a wide variety of tasks, including cutting, shredding, and whittling.’
- ‘Climatic, hydrological, and geological conditions in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are analogous in many ways to those on Mars, and many ice-related features may have direct morphologic and compositional counterparts on Mars.’
- ‘This is one of the pre-requisites to the formation of crystals with well-developed faces and high degrees of morphologic perfection.’
- 1.1Relating to the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.‘studies of genetic variation of morphological traits in mammals’
- ‘the geraniums have a number of unusual morphological adaptations’
- ‘The two species show only minimal morphological differentiation, suggesting very recent diversification.’
- ‘A morphological or physiological trait may appear multiple times in evolution.’
- ‘The morphological variability within the sheathed bacteria is high.’
- ‘The neuroendocrine granular cells did not show the typical morphologic features of insulin granules.’
- ‘Differential counts were performed on 200 cells using standard morphologic criteria.’
- 1.2Linguistics Relating to the forms of words, in particular inflected forms.‘the language's phonological, morphological and syntactic structure’
- ‘morphological and syntactic similarities between languages’
- ‘In the case of morphological marking, a verbal affix (in its broadest sense) is attached to the predicate or predicate complex.’
- ‘Such a feature (phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, lexical, or other) usually contrasts with some similar feature in adjoining areas.’
- ‘Very frequently, words are given incorrect or unjustifiable morphological analyses.’
- ‘Berko wanted to test children's knowledge of morphological rules.’
- ‘The children were tested on a variety of morphological processes (past-tense formation of novel verbs, possessive forms of novel nouns, etc.)’
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